Year: 2015

Heritage Bank Lightens NYSC Hope Alive Initiative, Employs 39 Ex-Corpers

Prominent Nigerian financial institution, Heritage Banking, has thrown its full weight behind the recently launched NYSC Hope Alive Initiative, a public private partnership (PPP) scheme that is designed to bring succour to corps members who suffer disabling injuries during their service to their fatherland. The Bank, as a demonstration of its support for the programme,…

Gunmen Attack Kano Pillars Players

Some hoodlums armed with dangerous weapons attacked the entourage of Kano Pillars Football Club on Thursday. Five players of the club were injured by the gunmen in the incident. It was gathered that the team was travelling for a league game in Owerri, Imo State against Heartland, when the club’s bus was attacked by armed…

Emir Of Gusau Dies

The death of the Emir of Gusau, Alhaji Kabir Danbaba, has been confirmed by the Zamfara State government. The monarch joined his ancestors on Thursday at the age of 91. The Commissioner for Information in Zamfara State, Ibrahim Magaji, who confirmed the traditional ruler’s death on behalf of the state government, noted that late Danbaba…

Leading financial institution in Nigeria, Diamond Bank Plc, has hinged the success and sustainable growth of Small and Medium-Scale Enterprises (MSMEs) on strategic planning, corporate discipline and focus. This was made known recently at a seminar held in Onitsha, Anambra State. Business Manager, Diamond Bank, Bridge Head, Onitsha, Raymond Mbonu, said in his welcome address…

The use of card readers for the forthcoming general elections in Nigeria by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, will be blocked, the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has maintained. Speaking with newsmen on Wednesday in Abuja, spokesman of the PDP Presidential Campaign Organisation, Femi Fani-Kayode, stressed that the party was rejecting the card readers…

NSCDC Winning War Against Vandals—Abolurin

The Corps Chief Executive of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, Ade Abolurin, has disclosed that the Corps has been recording successes in its Commands across the country in their renewed fight against vandals. In a statement issued by the Corps recently, the Civil Defence boss stated that reports from some of its…